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ASPARTAME ANYONE???
Wed, 05/30/2007 - 00:24Comments
Re: ASPARTAME ANYONE???
Submitted by jennifer5978 on Sat, 2008-06-07 - 16:02
Hi Sydlee06,
I don't know if you ever check this website anymore but I came across your story of your daughter and am looking for answers myself for my 2 year old son who has had 5 seizures since he was 16 months old. All tests have come back normal and the neuro cannot give us any answers as to why they are happening. Upon all my research the subject of aspartame is high on my list and am trying to find other parents who have taken their children off aspartame and resulted in no more seizures. If you happen to still be on this discussion board I would like to know if your daughter is still seizure free and if you have happen to found any other cases that are the same as yours and successful. Thanks!
Worried momma, Jennifer
Hi Sydlee06,
I don't know if you ever check this website anymore but I came across your story of your daughter and am looking for answers myself for my 2 year old son who has had 5 seizures since he was 16 months old. All tests have come back normal and the neuro cannot give us any answers as to why they are happening. Upon all my research the subject of aspartame is high on my list and am trying to find other parents who have taken their children off aspartame and resulted in no more seizures. If you happen to still be on this discussion board I would like to know if your daughter is still seizure free and if you have happen to found any other cases that are the same as yours and successful. Thanks!
Worried momma, Jennifer
Re: ASPARTAME ANYONE???
Submitted by sydlee06 on Sun, 2007-07-08 - 14:18
My daughter, who is 5, starting having seizures in Nov. Her seizures were hard to control with medicine and became more and more frequent. In Feb and March she had to hospitilized 3 times for status. The last time she was admitted, I had read about the possible link with aspartate, and immediatly stopped allowing her to have it. My husband is diabetic so she did ingest it probably more often than the average child, in sugar free pudding, jello, taking drinks out of our sodas, ect.. The only other thing that changed was the doctors increased her Keppra by 100mg twice daily. She has not had a single seizure since then. At first I just thought it was a coincidence and that the aspartame had nothing to do with it. But I work in a pharmacy and after doing lots of research as to how certain seizure and other neuro drugs work, I believe without a doubt that asptartame can and does cause seizures and many many other neurological conditions. As for me and mine, we will no longer use anything with aspartame in it!! I recently drank a diet soda because nothing else was available and I had a headache within an hour.